Hallowed Institution
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- May
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We ran this ludicrous piece on our editorial page (by a reverend no less) the other day. Thank goodness we enjoy the good fortune of having a separation of church and state. So many words, so many justifications, so many excuses, and straw man arguments – All cover for wanting to keep others in line and prevent two adult people from voluntarily entering into a solemn, happy public commitment. Which leads me to wonder. Are people born being uncomfortable with homosexuality, or do they choose to be that way.
My wife and I are celebrating our 14th wedding anniversary today and I can’t imagine stopping others from enjoying the same. Over the past few years, we have attended several joyous same-sex weddings, and not once did I sense that the two of us were in the midst of a dark encroaching threat upon our own marital bliss.
The true threat to traditional marriage comes in the form of the reprobates and misfits who, y’know, marry the wrong person.
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“The true threat to traditional marriage comes in the form of the reprobates and misfits who, y’know, marry the wrong person.”
Yeah, like me.
I don’t remember which comedian said it, but I simply don’t understand the opposition to same sex marriages….after a while, all marriages result in the same sex every time, don’t they?
There is a broad spectrum of personality types, from the definitive, leaderly, truly aggressive, all the way down to the unsure, the timid, the shapeable dupe. Only those in the top half will succeed in the marriage venture, and only those in the top quartile can succeed in many competitive life situations.
What are we to do, with those in the fringe area? Those not “Alpha” enough to be champion, but yet still in the running? Are we to encourage them with loving support & hetero icons to amplify whatever positive qualities they possess, ( however meager they might be), and thus “succeed” in life as it has been known for 10,000 years…...even if only to a limited degree, hampered by their gender ambivalencies? Or are we to preach Bob Dylan’s tenet of failure as success, and tell them to de-genderize, slide on down the passivity slope, and find employment as the passive life-partner of some manipulative, unfaithful, and unfruitful invert, in a cadre of the tail-enders… those whose biological lineage is surely ended at this generation by choice?
I know, I know, we can inseminate remotely, and in lieue of orphanages the world needs a looney contingent of foster-drones to mentor the huge glut of children abandoned by the recklessly hetro hordes happily humping sans matrimony. If this is the need, then we need a new icon, a new role model. “Gay” is not halfway gay enough for this task, worldwide as it is. Gay is all about self, self image, and sex attraction. It has no bowels for community, family, committment, and continuance. You see, by definition, it shuns biological and thus spiritual continuance. It is a death camp. A gay and “happy” death camp, but a camp nonetheless built on the foundation of “No Continuance” and thus “No True Family”. Yes, we can misnomer exploitive foster-child farms “Families”... but we are lying when we do. I know young people who have come from the foster child system, and their hurt is well-nigh incurable.
I say, the paradigm is flawed…. much more limited than its exponents can admit, or even realize.It would take a worldwide “Gay-ocracy” , where the paradigm assumes all the duties attached to normalcy, for its exponents to finally realize its fatal shortcoming. For in that world, another race of heteros would have to be called upon for breeding, or the world would grow old & die in a single generation, exposing the delusion inherent in calling sexual abnormality by the all-too-glossy epithet: “gay”.
In civil life, it is desirable to get employer’s health coverage, and retirement inclusion for partners, of any orientation, who sacrifice towards the domestic situation of the wage earner. This is already covered, in “Domestic Partner” laws. This is easily done without debasing marriage, as it has been known from before the time of Adam & Eve ( or their evolutionary stand-ins). We ought seek no more. We ought allow no more. Homosexual “marriage”, by it’s deficient foundation, can promise no more.
Nice funny quips, Topgun & Clay Jones.
Matt, you are SO sanctimonious!
Happy Anniversary! thanks for the daily chuckle… My boyfriend and I have vowed to get married every time we go someplace where it’s legal for two guys to do so, since it won’t be recognized as a marriage in our home state of Oregon.
Bottom line:
It is nobody’s f**king business what two people who love and care about each other do in their relationship. Anyone who oppresses the rights of another American citizen, let alone another human being, while relishing those same rights for themselves, is no better than the Nazis, Ku Kux Klan, Taliban, Communists, or host of other scum on this Earth.
My mother, who married her female partner of 27 years in ‘08, must’ve done something wrong along her meticulously planned, lesbomaniacal, mankind-decimating agenda, since she ended up raising two straight (biological) kids – my brother and me. I’m happily married to a highschool sweetheart named Aron and we’ve sired offspring the old-fashioned way – three kids so far, all of which are writing valentine’s cards to fellow human beings of the opposite sex.
Homosexuality is often but a single-generation-phenomenon in the heteroverse of the average family and has less effect on the reproduction rate than, say, the deliberate decision of many modern married heteros not to procreate at all, or a straight bride’s age, or a straight groom’s
infertility.
Conspiration, Shmonzpiration, ... ... ...
Same-sex-marriage is a threat to humankind the way jazz is a threat to classical music.
We need more clear thinking people like Matt Davies who can eloquently draw what others need to learn to spell – Common Sense.
This is getting out of control. I have never before seen this comment board so agreeable with each other. Gays getting married is wrong, wrong, wrong!!!! God made man and woman, not man and man. Next thing you know we will be letting man marry Dog. We should definatly leave the decicion of who gets to marry who up to the courts, they haven’t steared us wrong yet!!
To all the gays who lead lives so exemplary, that they seem to be “Almost Normal” (like Sophie, above).... I say… Congratulations. I just wonder if those two boys’ football potential was fully plumbed while growing up? (Or hunting)
No?.... A pity, that….
Anyone beginning to feel a little guilty?
To all beings who wish to love each other without restraint, I say “Go For It… You Only Live Once.” I know that my dog Murphy and I are very, very sympatico.
To those who attempt to twist a privilege (marriage) into an endowment-at-birth, I say this: Ought two castrati get married ? (they lack the needed equipment) Ought two delusional psychotics get married? (they lack requisite intention & resolve).Ought two quadriplegics on life support, 12,000 miles apart on 2 distant continents get married? (they lack a realistic expectation of consummation).
And so on….
Nobody is preventing any “love”.
We are just hoping to prevent hubris, lunacy & buffoonery from blackening the name of this civilization for all time.
Or perhaps you can name those wonderful same-sex civilizations of the past, who flourished outside the bounds of our oh-so-restricting and mundane so-called “Normalcy”?
Go ahead, give us the names…...
(Please leave out Greece)
Great cartoon, Matt, and thanks for being cool and allowing links to Facebook…I saw it in today’s L.A. Times and was proud to link to it.
BTW, married my partner of 12 years on our anniversary last year. Sooooo glad that the Supreme Court has “allowed” us to remain married.
I swear, sometimes it’s hard to believe this is America in the 21st century….
as much as i love your work, one plus one doesn’t equal three. civil unions provide the same rights.